Am one week into a three-week trip. So far... this Northwest fellow is impressed! I like what I see for the most part. Doing a lot of hiking, pretty much every day. So much to explore. I'll let a few photos do most of the talking:

White Rim Road, a 1950's uranium exploration road in what is now Canyonlands National Park, Utah. It's about 100 miles long. Must reserve campsites well in advance. Beautiful desert/canyon country with HUGE terrain!

Found a herd of desert bighorn sheep:

Ancient rock art called "The Great Hunt" in Nine Mile Canyon:

I hadn't expected to be so enthralled with Nine Mile Canyon. Was going to spend two or three hours there. Spent the whole day!

Have a little fridge in the back of the Jeep, and a Coleman stove to feed myself:

I'll update this time to time when I can get Wi-Fi. Walked through the ruins of a 1,000 year old pueblo yesterday. It was a wonderful, quiet, contemplative walk. Those folks had a hard life.

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Terrific pics! It would be fascinating to learn the engineering that was involved in their buildings. Also, what did they use for "paint" in their art?

Randy

The various paints are made from the various minerals and other materials available to them.

With the buildings - at Honanki - we were able to see the progression of building skills from earlier structures to newer structures. They got much better. The lines are straighter, the geometry better.

Fascinating stuff. I know very little about the Sinagua peoples - but am amazed by them.

Last time I was through that area (many years ago, now) we visited the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, and the Canyon. After about an hour at the south rim, it started snowing.

Deciding discretion was the better part of valor, we started back toward Flagstaff. Within a half-hour of us starting to drive, the snow worsened and we were in full on blizzard conditions. Then we passed the mountain there... (looks up) Humphrey's Peak, and it was like driving from night into day - blue skies and sun. Not sure if I would have believed it had I not been there myself.

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